What is it that makes a church building “sacred?” Why do we enter great churches and cathedrals and gasp with wonder while ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

At the Protestant Revolution, rood screens were demolished and altar rails became the boundary markers between the nave and ...

Elevated to a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1993, this sacred Ugandan landmark has become a global pilgrimage ...

A time for some deep soul-searching One final thought: the rancor and divisions within the post-Vatican II Church, which were stoked most recently by Benedict XVI's noble but misguided attempt to ...

(For Rahner, Vatican II ratified this decision by gathering bishops native to all the continents, thereby definitively opening the church to the diversity of cultures and viewpoints that would ...

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The materials used for liturgical vestments and church furnishings can also influence ... the harmony between liturgical vestments and architecture is particularly evident. In St. Peter’s Basilica in ...

Among other points, the correspondence warned Vatican officials that individuals linked to the SCV have attempted to use a church-state agreement to gain tax breaks on lucrative businesses only to ...

VATICAN CITY — Vice President JD Vance and ... Prayer Breakfast as indicative of his thinking of where the Catholic Church’s priorities and Trump’s intersect. “Where I think President ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history's first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass in St ...

But he isn't just the leader of the Catholic Church ... architecture, museums and archives, it attracts pilgrims and tourists from around the world, especially during jubilee years. In 2023, the ...